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4 Trout, 2 Grayling

We started the day with a climb up Twyn y Garth hill to the Garth Gun. Spectacular views and the hatch of Coch-y-Bondhu beetles up there had to be seen to be believed! Shame they were not on the river!

The water at Llangoed was rather discoloured… visibility 2ft maximum and more foam than usual. Lots of sedges and a few duns emerging, mostly yellow mays. Haven’t seen as many small fish in the river for a long time that is good news… perhaps the absence of cormorants and goosanders has something to do with that?

Equal numbers of trout and OOS grayling biggest 10 inches … and one OOS dace! There was a shoal of them which is good to see, avoided casting to them as a day too soon!

We stayed till 2100 in the hope that the bigger fish might show but only one did … a salmon that did a majestic cruise past us with a large bow wave before turning to show us his flank. Great to see!

6 Trout, 6 Grayling, 1 Other

22 Trout, 3 Grayling

The odd fish showing but only 1 trout taken on dry fly. The rest all on bead head nymphs or emergers taken sub-surface. Twaite shad (a first) up to 2lbs. Plenty of fry observed in the margins.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling, 4 Other

2 Trout

Arrived at river having seen off a field full of young bullocks… there was plenty of insect life with a lot of yellow may duns and sedges in the air, fish were rising sporadically. We had a few but 7 o’clock came and decision time … stay or go? Cloud cover had increased throughout the afternoon so we gambled and stayed …. To witness one of the most wonderful spinner falls seen on the Wye with mayflies, olives and yellow May duns dancing …. Sedges and stoneflies too. The fish were impressed too … we ended up with 24, a good mix of year classes for the trout , best one a stunning 17 incher. JB briefly contacted a shad … can’t wait till the grayling re-appear in numbers too. Saw a mink and otter… what a wonderful day, thank you Wye and Usk !

21 Trout, 3 Grayling

2 brown trout caught and released
6 shad caught and returned.
No salmon seen today or caught
2 otters patrolling up and down the gutters

2 Trout, 6 Other

It was my first time on this beat, so spent the morning exploring and flicking a spinner into each pool. Very few trout rising and no salmon seen.

After lunch, I focused on the lower half: Chapel Catch and Waterworks. No salmon seen again, but I did see a massive barbel sheltering in a rock gutter. The wading, although over bedrock, was fairly simple (assuming you have good studs on your boots)

The gutters also held a huge population of shad which repeatedly nailed my mepps spinner. To avoid this species any further, I upped to a 7cm Rapala. This worked. Well, my lure no longer bothered the shad, but any passing salmon were similarly untroubled.

Great day out.

7 Other

a quick couple of hours in the evening. River has dropped more than I thought, fished two pools the big one and the waterworks one. Saw 3 fish in big pool and two in the waterworks pool, didn't touch any Salmon but shad are now here

5 Other

3 shad!

3 Other